What chemicals are in your Apple iPhone 5?

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04 Oct 2012, 13:29posted on

Just the other day, the guys at iFixit decided to breakdown the chemical composition of 36 phones including the Apple iPhone 5; some of the chemicals used to produce these products, like glass cleaner n-hexane, continue to poison assembly line workers...

Radiation is something else. All wireless devices release electromagnetic radiation (fancy for "radio waves"). As far as I know, they don't contain any compounds which release nuclear radiation (as in Uranium).

These are toxic elements/compounds like lead and n-hexane.

Side note: I kind of cringed when the article mentioned chlorine as a heavy metal. Chlorine is a nonmetal. It's a gas at room temperature.

Just about everything we use require some type of toxic material to manfacture. To clean and further aid in manufacturing are toxic/deadly industrial solvents. That airplane you flew in, the car you drove, the train you rode, the dslr you are using, and such is hazardous to our health. Try making something without certain chemicals in the matrix of a product and see how good it would last or operate.

And how much Carbon footprint for all these devices? carbon footprint by computing the footprint for each component that goes into the phone. So something like Aluminium has a much higher footprint as compared to Plastic/polycarbonate etc...

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